September 19, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- India has left it to America to crown the first Indian beauty queen who looks...well, Indian.
- France advances on banning beauty pageants for children under 16; organizers could face jail time.
- On Pickering's Harem, the forgotten female research assistants who pushed astronomy forward.
- Now that Facebook likes are protected by the U.S. Constitution, there could be wide-ranging ramifications for First Amendment rights.
- Where all the drones in the U.S. are located reveals the trends of the burgeoning industry.
- A Greenpoint, Brooklyn, restaurant organizes event in which customers are required to eat in silence.
- From "gobbledygook" to "global warming," an exploration of the history behind the neologisms that stuck.
- Franzen complaint or random YouTube comment?
- After winning fame with Eat, Pray, Love and destroying her literary cred, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction.
- James Fallows drives to the source of the elusive Heady Topper beer to see for himself how it's made.
- Certain infections can turn your gut into a brewery, make you spontaneously drunk.
- "Corked" wine numbs your olfactory senses, causing your brain to perceive it as malodorous.
- We don't fear clowns as much as we fear the weirdo behind the makeup.
- The rise of mental illness in children is a result of too much emphasis on school and hardly any on play.
- Neuroscientists link rhythmic understanding gained from practicing music to better linguistic ability.
- Abstract images that are actually dead birds.
